Chrysalis reborn to revive stream of classic rockers

Debbie Harry, from the band Blondie, remains popular with those streaming music. The band stuck to Chrysalis for all their albumsAnthony Barboza/Getty Images

The team behind one of the most famous imprints in recorded music has got the band back together after Chris Wright, the 71-year-old founder of Chrysalis Records, spearheaded the acquisition of his old label.

Mr Wright has teamed up with Jeremy Lascelles, the former chief executive of Chrysalis Music, and Robin Millar, a record producer and former EMI executive, to buy the label from Warner Music. Mr Wright will become chairman of Chrysalis 27 years after he sold the label at the height of its popularity.

Chrysalis was founded in the late 1960s after Mr Wright and Terry Ellis set up a record label to release albums by Jethro Tull. The success of the flute-wielding prog-folk band put Chrysalis on the map and it grew…